Forty-five years ago today, the Mineral Point Vampire was first seen, kicking off a modern local legend. But what if I were to tell you that it wasn’t a vampire seen all those years ago but a ghost — The Ridgeway Ghost. Terrorizing the Ridgeway region from the 1840s onward, the Ghost took many shapes and guises, never content to repeat the same prank too often. From vanishing vagrants to fireballs, ghoulish livestock and more, the transitory nature of the Ghost was part of its haunting tactics.